Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located at the southwestern end of Long Island. The borough, named for Breukelen in the Netherlands, was founded by Dutch settlers in 1634, and it became a village on the outskirts of Manhattan under English rule during the late 17th and 18th centuries. In 1896, Brooklyn was incorporated into New York City, and it became the second-largest of the city's five boroughs. Brooklyn is known for its brownstone buildings, its ethnic enclaves (such as Italian Bensonhurst, Polish Greenpoint, Jewish Seagate, Russian Brighton Beach, and African-American Brownsville), its 21st century gentrification process, and its postmodern art and design. In 2015, Brooklyn had a population of 2,636,735 people.